The new XPG LANCER NEON RGB DDR5 memory from ADATA's gaming brand not only presents the most RGB we've seen on a memory module with "60% RGB Illumination," but it's also the first DDR5 RGB gaming memory produced using eco-friendly practices and processes.

The XPG LANCER NEON RGB's heatsink features 50% PCR plastic, with additional environmental packaging and coating on the heatsink surface. This is cool because the last thing you think when you see an RGB module, mostly RGB lighting, is, "This looks like it's eco-friendly."

Outside of the eco-stuff, XPG is also touting high performance, with speeds of up to 8,000 MT/s and special heatsink coating and heat dissipation technology delivering overclocked operating temperatures that are "an average 8.5°C lower than standard overclocked memory."

A week ago, AMD released its latest driver update for Radeon graphics users, with AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.8.1 adding support for support for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Concord, FINAL FANTASY XVI, and Star Wars Outlaws. This week, AMD released a non-WHQL update with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.10.37.10, which is available to install.

The non-essential driver update targets a few things: fixing performance issues with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - an action-packed new PC release that is getting rave reviews and positive feedback from gamers. If you're a Radeon gamer playing Space Marine 2 or looking to pick it up, this interim driver is a must, as it also fixes issues related to the game crashing on Radeon GPU hardware.

This sentiment also applies to Black Myth: Wukong, as this driver release fixes an issue for Radeon gamers playing the game with Global Illumination set to Medium or higher. This was flagged in Adrenalin Edition 24.8.1, so seeing a quick fix here is excellent.

Up to 27 hours of battery life on a thing and light ultrabook is impressive, unheard of even, but that's what ASUS is touting with the launch of its new ASUS Zenbook S 14 laptop powered by the latest Intel 'Lunar Lake' Core Ultra processors. ASUS's new Zenbook line-up for 2024, with the durable Ceraluminum shell and 1.1cm thin chassis, is certainly sleek and stylish - with this model being the Intel version of the Zenbook Copilot+ PC we first saw at Computex 2024.

As a Copilot+ PC, the ASUS Zenbook S 14 with the latest Intel Core Ultra 7 processor delivers around 47 TOPS of AI performance while supporting Intel Evo technologies like instant wake-up, enhanced Wi-Fi, and the aforementioned long-lasting battery.

According to ASUS, the shortened physical distance between the RAM and CPU has led to better cooling, better efficiency, and even faster RAM, with the ASUS Zenbook S 14 featuring 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5X memory clocked at 8,533 MHz.

AMD is reportedly cooking up a next-generation Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, something revealed during a recent join Q&A session at IFA 2024 between AMD and Microsoft.

At the event, Digital Trends was in attendance when AMD explained that AMD is aiming for an "early 2025" release for its new Z2 Extreme chip. This is incredibly exciting news as AMD has powered most of the best gaming handhelds on the market with its Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme processors, inside of the likes of the ASUS ROG Ally.

We should expect some major upgrades from the successors to most gaming handhelds in 2025, powered by AMD's upcoming Ryzen Z1 Extreme. AMD's Jack Huynh talked about wanting to play Black Myth: Wukong for 3 hours on a handheld, not just the 45 minutes we get from current-gen handhelds.

AMD is giving up the high-end GPU market with RDNA 4, in its own words, where it will switch to a new business model for RDNA 4 that will focus on 'customer scalability' versus competing in the flagship GPU business.

We've been hearing rumors for months and months now, but AMD has officially confirmed the news with Tom's Hardware with Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group, Jack Huynh, verifying the rumors of RDNA 4.

AMD wants to avoid customers looking at its flagship GPUs like the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, against NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090, which the RTX 4090 destroys the RX 7900 XTX. AMD doesn't want a slower product (even if its flagship) against a better product... so not competing in the high-end with RDNA 4 at all, avoids that association against NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards.

Warner Bros. Discovery shows no signs of giving up on its video games business any time soon.

Any hit-driven business is a gamble, and gaming is no different. There's never any guarantee that a game will sell and/or make earnings from microtransactions. WB Games has seen its fair share of hits with games like the Arkham series, the best-selling Mortal Kombat franchise, and more recently the 22 million-selling Hogwarts Legacy, but the pendulum also swings the other way, too.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a dud, and led to some big losses for the company. Even still, WB is mature enough to understand that these things happen in the games business, and has no intention of just giving up on the segment.

I don't know why this exists, but it does: a desktop NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 graphics card, turned into a luxury purse worth $1000, and we're totally not joking. Check it out:

The new GPU Purse features an NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 graphics card from 2018, based on the GK208 GPU with 2GB of VRAM, it's a 1.5-slot card, with no external PCIe power connectors. As for the purse, the GT 730 is inside of a beautiful translucent handbag that would be perfect for those high-end girl gamers.

Between the two sides of the purse, we have the GPU on one side and a small GIGABYTE fan on the other side, meaning you can put things inside of the purse between those two sides of the GT 730. I don't see men using this, but women that want to put their phone, makeup, lipstick, keys, and more into the GPU Purse would look great while doing it.

Sony executive Hiroki Totoki briefly discusses the company's lack of carefully-curated and nurtured intellectual property across its full portfolio of multimedia.

Sony, unlike Microsoft or Nintendo, is somewhat lacking in the IP department. That is, across the full spectrum of anime, TV, film, and video games. To its credit, Sony is making substantial strides to find efficiencies and synergies among these different branches, e.g. using its gaming IP to create a swath of television shows like The Last of Us on HBO and the Uncharted film starring Tom Holland.

In a recent interview with The Financial Times, company CFO and SIE CEO Hiroki Totoki said something interesting about Sony's IP: "Whether it's for games, films or anime, we don't have that much IP that we fostered from the beginning," he said.

TSMC has achieved production yields at its new Arizona, USA facility that is "on par" with established, world-leading plants back in Taiwan, according to new reports.

In a new piece by Bloomberg, the outlet reports that TSMC's yield rate in trial production at its Arizona plant, its first advanced plant in the US, are similar to comparable plants in the southern city of Tainan, in Taiwan, "according to a person familiar with the company, who asked not to be identified discussing private corporate matters".

TSMC said it began engineering wafer production in April 2024, with its newer 4nm process node. TSMC doesn't discuss or disclose its yield rates on chips, with investors instead relying on TSMC's ability to maintain steady margins. TSMC says it can maintain gross margin rates at 53% or higher in the long run, and has continued keeping its net profit steady at above 36% for the last 4 years... and with it being the world-leader in chipmaking, I don't see that slowing down anytime soon.

Linus Tech Tips has caught itself in another controversy, but this time, it doesn't have to do with poor quality videos, but instead, its videos perhaps being a little "too" good.

LTT has decided to go after the owner of the platform it posts its videos on, Google, with a series that has seemingly ruffled some of the company's feathers as it informs viewers how they can move away from Google-related products/services. The first episode of the series was posted on May 23, 2024, and is titled "De-Google Your Life". It provides viewers with information on how to move away from Google Chrome and its related services.

The second part in the series was published on August 20, 2024, and was removed from YouTube for violating the platform's "community guidelines". Within this video the LTT team showcased how a user could transition away from using Google's password manager, Google Maps, and even interact with the platform without interfacing with YouTube directly, including by downloading videos.

NVIDIA demoed me an updated version of its impressive ACE technology, which offers developers a suite of technologies designed to bring digital humans to life with generative AI models.

One of the biggest problems in gaming is the lackluster dialogue options, particularly in open-world or sandbox experiences that could significantly benefit from players being able to interact with NPCs more dynamically. NVIDIA ACE makes this possible, and while the technology is still in development what NVIDIA showcased to be was truly eye-opening at what is on the horizon for game's of the future.

NVIDIA ACE is designed to create digital humans in various forms, leveraging the following generative AI technologies: NVIDIA Riva ASR, TTS and NMT, which enables automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech conversation, and translation, NVIDIA Nemotron LLM for language understanding and contextual responses, NVIDIA Audio2Face for realistic facial animation based on audio tracks, and NVIDIA Omniverse RTX for real-time, path-traced realistic skin and hair.

A new study has detailed how mice skin can be turned transparent to see inside their bodies while they are still alive.

The new procedure doesn't harm the animals and involves the use of food dye that is applied to the skin of the mice. According to a new study published in the scientific journal Nature, the researchers are able to get a full view into the insides of a mouse, with a full view of their blood vessels, organs, and everything else. With technology such as this, the researchers hope to eventually use it on humans to be able to better diagnose any medical afflictions and ultimately learn more about the human body.

So, how does it work? The team explained the dye absorbs blue and ultraviolet light, making it much easier for light to pass through the skin of the mouse, leading to transparency. The Standford researchers explained the dye is "biocompatible" and that once it's washed off the mice, the rodent loses its transparency and excretes any leftovers through its urine.

Researchers have used the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to peer out to edge of the Solar System known as the Kuiper Belt to discover any objects. 11 objects were discovered, and they appear to be orbiting in a "ring".

The two stories (here) and (here) are set to be published in the Planetary Science Journal and detail evidence for a cluster of objects just outside of the Kuiper Belt, which is approximately 40 to 50 astronomical units (AU), or the distance between Earth and the Sun, away from our planet.

As for the objects, researchers discovered 11 of them at a distance of between 70 to 90 AU, and if they are confirmed, it could have big implications for our understanding of the evolution of the Kuiper Belt and, by extension, our own Solar System.

Black Myth: Wukong quickly became one of the best-selling games of all time, with its release on PlayStation and PC fueling more than 18 million unit sales in just two weeks.

With the incredible success of the new single-player title, many gamers are left begging the question as to where the Xbox version is. Unfortunately, the answer has a lot of ambiguity around it as conflicting reports mention a possible Sony deal with Black Myth: Wukong developer Game Science for some sort of exclusivity that involved Sony assisting in the development of the game but didn't have Sony attached as an exclusivity disclaimer.

However, other reports indicated there was no such exclusivity deal in place and that Black Myth: Wukong was suffering from some sort of development problem related to Xbox console hardware specifications, particularly the weaker variant, the Xbox Series S. Now, Outrageous Dong Chai has posted a video showcasing evidence of what appears to be scrapped online multiplayer mode for Black Myth: Wukong as the evidence of the long lost mode can be found within the title's game code.

Unfortunately, Grand Theft Auto VI is still quite far away. Take-Two Interactive only recently confirmed that the highly anticipated title's release window is currently slated for late 2025, and with still only one trailer out, there isn't much new to chew on about GTA 6.

Despite the one trailer, the upcoming release from Rockstar Games has experienced a significant amount of leaked information that has now, for the first time, been aggregated and presented in a clean, uniform PDF titled "The GTA VI Document (v1.5)." Obviously, if any more new information about the upcoming title is released, the document will be updated, and presumably, a new one will be published for the community of fans to dive into.

But, for those that haven't been following any of the leaked information about GTA 6 v1.5 the document is a great spot to start as it outlines the tumultuous timeline of GTA 6 information surfacing in various ways. Additionally, the document outlines all of the known information about the game such as mentioned characters, items and tools seen, weapons, leaked UI, multiplayer evidence, collectibles, vehicles, locations and much more.

Following his arrest in France on charges on twelve charges, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has had his past looked and it was discovered the billionaire tech founder has helped father more than 100 children, or at least according to him.

Durov was arrested in France last month on several criminal charges that alleged he was complicit in drug trafficking, distribution of child sexual abuse material, facilitation of fraud, illicit transactions, and more. All of these charges stem from an unknown percentage of the 950 million Telegram users that take advantage of the end-to-end encryption of the messaging platform.

The Telegram CEO has since responded to the charges in a recent Telegram post, saying he was "surprised" to discover he could be held personally responsible for the illegal activities of people using his platform. In a recent USA Today report, the publication pointed out Durov has publicly claimed he has fathered more than 100 children through anonymous sperm donations and that his doctor informed him his sperm was of "high quality".

YouTube has announced it's working on a new set of tools designed to detect AI-generated content across its platform, and that these tools have been created with the intention of protecting the likeness of creators.

In a new post on the official YouTube blog, the company's Vice President of Creator Productors at YouTube, Amjad Hanif, explained how the new tools represent YouTube's commitment to "responsible AI development," and part of that is regulating the content on its platform that AI is helping create. The blog post reveals the video platform has created a new tool that is capable of detecting the signing voice of a musician, or the musician's "likeness".

The same principle has been applied to another tool that's designed to identify AI-generated content showing the faces of actors, creators, athletes, political figures, and more. The tools are meant to be guardrails for how YouTube is going to deal with the influx of AI-generated video content on its platform when AI-generation tools eventually make it into more people's daily devices. That isn't to say AI-generated content isn't already being posted on YouTube because it certainly is, and at an increasing rate.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft that transported two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) has returned home without the astronauts.

Boeing's first astronaut mission to the ISS ended in failure when NASA deemed its Starliner spacecraft unsafe to transport the two astronauts it took to the ISS in June back to the surface of Earth. The mission was originally meant to be eight days, but now the astronauts will stay aboard the ISS until February next year when they will hitch a ride on Boeing's competitor's spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon capsule.

Starliner parachuted into New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range on Friday. It has since been collected and will undergo a thorough evaluation to determine what caused the helium leaks that ultimately led to its mission's failure. Preliminary analysis of Starliner's problem from engineers led to the suspicion that Starliner's thrusters were getting too hot, causing the protective seals to swell and eventually obstruct the flow of propellant or liquid helium.

Earlier last month, a US federal judge ruled that Google held a monopoly over the search industry and abused its power to maintain it.

The lawsuit that Google lost claimed the company acted illegally to keep its grip on the search industry, which involved paying other big tech giants such as Apple, Samsung and Mozilla billions of dollars per year to stay as the default search engine on their respective phones and browsers. US Federal Judge Amit P. Mehta found Google to be guilty of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and has now given an update on the company's punishment.

According to reports from The New York Times, a federal judge will deliver the punishment for Google by August 2025, and in the meantime, Judge Amit P. Mehta has asked prosecutors from the Justice Department and states to submit proposals on how to remedy the problem. Prosecutors have until the end of the year to submit proposals for Google's remediation, and after that, Judge Mehta will hold a new trial to hear evidence on how to move forward.

Phillips Hue colored lights can really change the feel of a room once a few globes have been obtained, but what if you wanted to combine the power of Phillips Hue with gaming?

Signify, formerly known as Phillips Lighting, has launched a better version of the Phillips Hue Sync Box, a device that can be plugged into a TV and then synced with the content playing on the screen. The Sync Box will then change the surrounding Phillips Hue lights to whatever color the content is on the screen of the television, creating a more immersive or arguably distracting viewing experience.

The original model of this device was released back in 2019, but now Phillips is launching an upgraded version that comes with support up to 8K at 60Hz for video content, which includes 4K at 120Hz for gaming. Additionally, the new model comes with support for HDMI 2.1, meaning it's compatible with current-gen gaming consoles. Gamers with a collection of Phillips Hue globes can now sync their globes to their games at higher refresh rates. The Sync Box 8K is able to sync up to 10 globes.